The Media Mega Rumble
Movies, Video Games, TV shows, Characters, other....things! All step into the ring and fight it out through discussion and discourse to determine who or what will be crowned the best!
Episodes
67 episodes
LHGO 49: Never Meet Your Heroes
After a brief tangent about meeting your childhood heroes, we get into everything we have been watching and/or doing. Includes Final Fantasy 16, Aliens: Dark Descent, The Flash, Something in the Dirt, Tape to Tape, Time, Platonic, and The Last ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:40:35
LHGO 30: Halloween Bleak Out 2: Hail to the King
It is time for the second annual Halloween Bleak Out! This year we focus on the work of Stephen King, perhaps the most influential and popular horror creator of modern times. From Cujo and IT to Maximum Overdrive and Misery, then the recent Rev...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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2:09:52
MMR 7: Another Bug Hunt
Alien, or Aliens, has been a franchise that has remained popular in the hearts and minds of people everywhere despite lying dormant for a few years after Alien: Resurrection. In 2012, it roared back to life with the divisive Prometheus, followe...
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1:25:04
MMR 6: Old Man Jones Fights Himself
In our new episode, we take a look at the two late (in one case very late) in the day sequels to one of the greatest action-adventure franchises of all time - Indiana Jones! Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out in 2008, followed by Dial of Des...
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1:31:39
MMR 5: Modern Evil Dead Massacre
On our new episode, we go through a triple threat match comprised of the modern entries in the Evil Dead franchise! The 2013 remake faces off against the three seasons of Ash vs Evil Dead, as well as the more recent Evil Dead Rise from 2023! Wh...
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1:04:11
MMR 4: Terminator Timelines Throwdown
Since 2003. post Terminator 2, The Terminator franchise has been rebooted 4 times up until 2019. That's more than one reboot per 5 years! Why? And which of these reboots was the best? From the pretty good Terminator 3, to the undervalued Salvat...
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1:25:50
MMR 3: The Moscars
Welcome to the only awards show that matters this year - the first Moscars ceremony ever! Listen as we award the categories and films that truly made 2024 an exceptional year in film!! Your favourite film of 2024 didn't get a look in at the awa...
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1:19:26
MMR 2: First Person Shooter Weigh In
In our new episode, we look at classic first-person shooter video games and compare and contrast their good and bad points to determine whose picks will be the best. We go from Halo and Timesplitters 2 to Call of Duty, Bioshock and Titanfall. W...
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1:17:46
MMR1: Battle of the Bat Men
Hello. We have a new podcast that you may be interested in (if our five or so subs are still about). The Media Mega Rumble is our new venture, the concept is to let films, TV, video games, characters, whathaveyou step into the ring and battle i...
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1:16:31
LHGO 55: Tarantino vs Anderson vs Predator
It's time for the fight of our lives. We have done the research, prepared ourselves, and postponed the recording of this five times. Now, it's finally here! Who is the best modern auteur between Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson? ...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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2:15:24
LHGO 54: We STILL Know What We Did Last Summer
There was a plan—a plan to do a new topic episode that spanned 18 films. Predictably, we ran out of time, so instead, here is a round-up of what we have been watching, playing, or reading. It includes the existential dread reflected in The Boys...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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1:56:25
LHGO 53: Serving the Public Trust...
Robocop! Who is he? What is he? Where did he come from? Well, he's the topic of our latest episode. We dig into everything from the seminal 1987 classic to the two flawed '90s sequels and the remake. The satire, the violence, the behind-the-sce...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:56:26
LHGO 52: Found It!
On a brand-new episode, we are no longer horsing around as we discuss the much-loved and much-derided sub-genre of Found Footage. From The Blair Witch Project to Cloverfield to the recent Late Night with the Devil, no stone is left unturned, an...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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2:04:22
LHGO 51: Podcast...of the Dead
In our new episode, we shamble into and barricade ourselves in the studio for an intense and scary examination of George A. Romero's zombie apocalypse films, from the seminal Night of the Living Dead to the dire Diary of the Dead and the classi...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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2:23:55
LHGO 50: Apocalypse Now-ish
We are back! And we have decided to re-introduce the main topics! On this new episode, we decided to talk about one of our combined favorite films - Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now. We go through its troubled production ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:54:51
LHGO 48: The Last Supper
After a long break, we are back! We harken back to one of our most popular episodes where we talked about dinner and discuss our ideal series of courses and what media will accompany them. Through the silliness we get to cover Renfield, It's al...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:48:07
LHGO 47: Toilet God
In a brand spanking, new geek out we introduce a new section of the podcast! In "The Supposed Classic" we revisit 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula and 2014's first season of True Detective. In addition, John finally plays Elden Ring and we review C...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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2:02:49
LHGO 46: Predahontas
We are back! And it's time for opinions and banter! This week we talk all about the recently announced slate for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Batgirl debacle over at DC. After this, we review Prey, Bullet Train, Netflix's Resi...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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1:38:49
LHGO 45: The King and Why
After a series of tangents about DLC, puppets, gas bills, and governmental foolishness, we have a bumper crop of reviews. We get jiggy with Elvis, depressed with Pleasure, We Own This City, and the new Arcade Fire album. Plus Stranger Things se...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:42:32
LHGO 44: Tractorsaurus Dominion
On a stomping new show on the podcast that refuses to stay extinct, we navigate evolution, logic, and terror to review Jurassic World Dominion. We also review French arthouse triumph Petite Maman, new horror movie The Black Phone, arcade throwb...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:32:47
LHGO 43: RRR U OK?
After battling Covid-19 and a week of British celebrations, your hosts are back to smash through reality with a packed episode of reviews. In this episode, we review season 3 of The Boys and Love, Death and Robots, season 1 of Obi-Wan Kenobi, s...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:44:07
LHGO 42: Darkest Timeline Fun
This week after a brief apology from one of our hosts, we head back into the darkest of all timelines to talk about Black Mirror season 6, This is Spinal Tap 2, Daredevil returning to screens, and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Then we ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:42:09
LHGO 41: Multiverse of Sadness
Foiled again by time management and MCU "discourse" we instead turn our attention to multiverses of a different sort this week with reviews of Everything Everywhere All At Once, Licorice Pizza, old school point and click masterpiece Norco, docu...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:49:33
LHGO 40: Procrastination Tube
On this week's dastardly yet "fine" new episode we talk all about the recent Netflix debacle, the possibility of a Streets of Rage movie, the resurrection of Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio and of course the announcement of The Batman 2. Then in o...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:49:36
LHGO 39: Psychedelic Nostalgia Hug
This week we have reviews of Ghostwire Tokyo, Apollo 10 1/2, Scream (5?), Moon Knight, Doctor Sleep, the original Dark Souls, and James saw Sparks live in Belfast! We also talk about the possibility of a remake of The Crow, Kathryn Big...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:48:04